Senior Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure

Planet is a company that designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will drive complex programs across various teams, focusing on infrastructure and operations, while managing end-to-end program plans and ensuring effective communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Manage internal technology releases and migrations, focusing on Planet’s high-scale infrastructure systems
• Scope and manage program schedules and break those into incremental milestones
• Facilitate development of product requirements with software teams
• Translate requirements across business and technical stakeholders with communication clarity
• Identify dependencies and risks and proactively mitigate them
• Facilitate decision making through data-driven analysis and healthy debate
• Communicate vertically and horizontally across Planet to keep stakeholders informed of progress, priorities, risks, and changes to requirements or plans
• Drive for results by continuously improving ways of working and processes, now and for the future

Requirements:

• 6+ years of software development or program management experience in the areas of platform engineering or cloud-based infrastructure
• Experience leading cross-functional projects and migrations across a broad organization
• Experience partnering with engineers to develop and execute change management plans
• Experience with the product life cycle: concept through development, launch, deprecation, and end-of-life
• Analytical, problem-solving, and creative thinking skills paired with the ability to communicate findings and recommendations
• Equally comfortable explaining your analyses and recommendations to business leaders as you are discussing technical trade-offs with engineers
• Ability to balance the tactical day-to-day with forward-looking improvements to scale operational efficiencies
• Experience with high-scale compute and storage infrastructure in public clouds, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience with managing an organization's alignment to ISO 27001, 9001, or 42001 standards
• Experience with remote sensing, earth observation data, or geospatial systems
• Experience working with remote, worldwide teams
• Ability to improve processes, tools, and ways of working to scale development cycles